‘The Audacity’ Creator Looks for Humanity in Silicon Valley: “It’s the Only Way Forward”

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[This story contains some spoilers for the first two episodes of The Audacity on AMC and AMC+.]

The Audacity is not going to be the thing that breaks the grip big tech has on our lives. That’s not a judgment — it’s the belief of the show’s creator.

“It has been a revolution, and I also eagerly and willingly say they won,” Jonathan Glatzer told The Hollywood Reporter. “I can’t battle against that with satire. It’s just not going to work.”

What Glatzer does hope the Silicon Valley-set AMC series, which premiered April 12, can do is “hold up a mirror and just say, do we want this? Is this what we want? Because we are working at a human time scale versus the computers, we’re slower, right? It takes a while for the scales to fall from our eyes, but you’re starting to see much more

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